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Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral are the major literary figures in Chile. English translations are available for Neruda's The Heights of Macchu Picchu, Canto General, Passions and Memoirs. Mistral's work has been translated by the US poet Langston Hughes. Isabel Allende (niece of the late president) has made a name for herself both at home and overseas with House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows and Eva Luna.Chile's post-Columbian history is described in JH Parry's The Discovery of South America and Eduardo Galeano's The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.The Allende years have spawned a minor publishing industry in themselves. They include Edy Kaufman's Crisis in Allende's Chile and James Petras and Morris Morley's The United States and Chile: Imperialism and the Overthrow of the Allende Government.Pinochet's dictatorship is described in José Donoso's novel Curfew and Antonio Skármeta's I Dreamt the Snow was Burning.Joan Jara, the wife of folk singer Victor Jara, has written the very personal Victor; An Unfinished Song.The film Missing was based on Thomas Hauser's book The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice, which relates the story of the death of a politically involved US citizen in the 1973 coup, implicating the involvement of US officials.Gabriel García Márquez's Clandestine in Chile is a riveting account of an exile's secret return to Chile.





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